Wickham: The Muslim Brotherhood

As we make the final preparations for the POMEPS Annual Conference this Friday and Saturday, we’re reflecting on all of the outstanding research being carried out by POMEPS community members. When looking over the list of conference participants we’re delighted to have such an accomplished group of scholars coming together. For example, we’re pleased to have Carrie Rosefsky Wickham joining as a discussant. Last year Wickham published The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement (Princeton University Press), which was named one of The Middle East Channel’s best books of 2013. In The Muslim Brotherhood, Wickham traces the evolution of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood from its founding to its electoral success in 2011 and 2012 following the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak. Wickham draws on more than a hundred interviews and utilizes Arabic language resources not previously seen by Western researchers to provide “a systematic, fine-grained account of Islamist group evolution in Egypt and the wider Arab world.”